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Information on Olympic Games
Olympic Games is held every four years at a different site,in which athletes from different nations compete against each other in a variety of sports. There are two typs of Olympics,the Summer Olympics and the Winter Olympics. Through 1992 they were held in the same year, but beginning in 1994 they were rescheduled so that they are held in alternate even-numbered years. For example, the Winter Olympics were held in 1994 and the Summer Olympics in 1996. The Winter Olympics were next held in 1998, and the Summer Olympics will next occur in 2000.
The Olympic Games began in Athens, Greece,in 1896, two years after French educator and thinker Pierre de Coubertin proposed that the Olympian Games of ancient Greece be revived to promote a more peaceful world. The program for the 1896 Games, comprising only summer events(the Winter Olympics were not established until 1924),included about 300 athletes from fewer than 15 countries competing in 43 even